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The funeral for Christy M. Taylor, 80, will be 2 PM Thursday in Brown – Cummings Funeral Home Chapel. Ron Baker, elder, will officiate. Private burial will follow. Military rites will be conducted by Vance Air Force Base Silver Talon Honor Guard.
He was born January 20, 1923, in Commerce, Texas, to George W. and Ethel Gertrude Evans Taylor and died Saturday, May 24, 2003, at St. Mary's Regional Medical Center.
He graduated from Valley Grande Academy, Weslaco, Texas, in 1941 and also attended Southwestern Junior in College in Keene, Texas; Pacific Union College in Anglin, California; and graduated from Union College, Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1947 with a bachelor of arts degree in religion, physiology and education. On June 2, 1946, he married Clarene Gallaher. He completed his Bachelor of Divinity degree in 1953 at The Seventh-day Adventist Seminary, Washington, DC. He was commissioned as a chaplain in the Air Force in September 1953. His tours of duty included Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio; Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi, Mississippi; Osan Air Base in Osan, Korea; and Eglin Air Force Base, Fort Walton Beach, Florida. He returned to civilian ministry in 1970, serving in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; Hagerstown, Maryland; Jefferson, Texas; and Waco, Texas. He was pastor of Enid and Alva Seventh- day Adventist Churches from 1973 to 1978. He then served Seventh-day Adventist Churches in Elk City and McAlester before returning to Enid in 1984. Upon retirement, he served as elder in Philadelphia Seventh-day Adventist Church, Enid. He was active in Salvation Army churches and taught Sunday school. He worked at Enid YMCA. The past few months he lived at an The Methodist Home of Enid.
Surviving are one daughter, Darlene Satterley of Enid; one brother, George of Commerce, Texas; three sisters, Elsie Clayton and Ethel Taylor, both of Commerce; and Opal Lee Brumley of Clarksville, Tennessee; four grandchildren; and one great – granddaughter.
He was preceded in death by two sons and one sister.
Memorials may be made through the funeral home to the Methodist Home of Enid.
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